Alec Walker 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him)

Favourability of the United States in Canada plummets to historic low of 20% under Trump According to a new study by EKOS ,favourability of the United States in Canada has fallen to a historic low of 20% since the re-election of Donald Trump.

“Favourability of the United States has plummeted to a historic low of 20% — second only to Russia.”

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#UtbanTruth

The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.

Lucifer has a point

Casual reminder that the #AlbertaUCP are all about consolidating power (in their hands) and avoiding accountability (for their decisions).

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”

Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

Almost like shutting down safe consumption sites and funneling money away from harm reduction and into abstinence grifting makes things less safe and increases harms. This is consistent with decades of data and was completely predictable.

That's not true.
Every child under 16 in the province, regardless of immigrant status, had a legal right to an education.

Canadian labour organizations are following the example set by Minnesota.

To everyone calling for a general strike: organizing events like this is a necessary practice run. You need to build collective power through organizing before you can wield that power.

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Just my opinion
The difference between a UCP deficit and an NDP deficit is that with the NDP the money would've been spent on healthcare, education and making life better for Albertans
With the UCP the money went on their friends and donors leaving Albertan worse off in every way
#ableg #abpoli

Of the 150ish students I teach every year, easily 50% of them go by a name that can be considered a preferred name and is not the one on their birth certificate.

Why is it only a problem when adults are afraid of their gender expression?

transphobes still framing being trans as some tragedy they should be allowed to "prevent"

also designating this cis trajectory as "natural" thus implying we are "unnatural"

A government that revokes the rights of teachers as workers (for daring to demand better working and learning conditions) does not care about being an earnest steward of public education. We need to hold the UCP accountable for their dereliction and decimation of that responsibility and duty.

#ABEd

On the Purposes of Education Since the Alberta teachers’ strike last October (and probably long before it, to a lesser degree), I’ve been thinking about the purpose of…

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Lately, I've been thinking about the purposes of public education.

Here's what I've come up with.

#ABEd #ABteachers

Limiting sexual education materials was the goal. They want Albertans to be vulnerable.

This is not okay.

Alberta Education and Childcare Assurance (AECA) survey Annual survey that gathers feedback on behalf of schools and school authorities to understand what works well and what needs improvement.

School boards are sending out the assurance survey to students and parents. There is a question about satisfaction with the health curriculum. If you are appalled at the state of sex education in this province, select "very dissatisfied" for this question. www.alberta.ca/alberta-educ...

The only in-depth follow I've seen in Alberta on this. This kind of journalistic work takes weeks and the impact of these government decisions will span decades. #abed #ableg

With rumors swirling about Smith lowering the standards for what it takes to become a teacher...

When asked about teachers and EA's, SMith made the stunning claim she used the notwithstanding clause to SAVE teachers.

Listen to the clip.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

YouTube video by Shadow Art Camera Services Inc Alicia Taylor on the completion of the Alberta Funds Public Schools petition, Feb 11 2026

So, the petition to have a referendum to end the public funding of private schools in Alberta failed to reach the threshold.

youtu.be/Qx4mR_TWnI8?...

Not surprised, but impressed at what they managed to accomplish!

#ABEd #ABPoli #ABLeg

The house that used to be my home was knocked almost right after it was purchased, almost a year ago now. The place did need to be knocked down. But that vacant hole was still there last I walked past.

Alberta cuts access to health care for some temporary workers, raising concerns in the Bow Valley | CBC News Alberta has stopped offering provincial health coverage to some people on working holiday and young professional visas, a change that came into effect earlier this year without a public announcement. ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has mused about cutting or limiting public services for temporary residents. It turns out that already happened last month with public health insurance www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbLeg #AbHealth

Edmonton punches above it's weight with transit, and we are nowhere close to realizing the untapped potential. Same with cycling.

Class Size Isn’t the Whole Story: Classroom Complexity Is Driving Teachers to the Breaking Point - CTF-FCE Third edition of the Parachute Educator Survey Series reveals why educator overwhelm is the norm and not the exception.

📊 New Parachute Survey Findings

Canadian classrooms aren’t just getting bigger: they’re getting more complex.

Almost 7000 educators across Canada tell us what’s really driving burnout, workload, and attrition.

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Marketing is a foreseeable facet of a capitalist society.

Stacy goes hard as fuck

Screenshot of the form at https://www.waternotcoal.ca

If anyone wanted to sign up to collect signatures for Corb Lund's citizen imitative petition, you can do that now.

www.waternotcoal.ca

#Alberta #abpoli #waternotcoal